Oral history interview of Thomas C. Moore

Collection:: Veterans History Project: Oral History Interviews
Title:: Oral history interview of Thomas C. Moore
Creator:: Tozzer, Newell Bryant
Moore, Thomas C., 1914-2008
Date of Original:: 2003-07-23
Subject:: World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
Artillery, Coast
Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943
Korean War, 1950-1953
Cold War
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
Catalina (Seaplane)
World politics--1945-1989
Moore, Bryant Holsenbeck, 1918-2010
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (Philadelphia, Pa.)
United States. Army. Reserve Officers' Training Corps
Pearl Harbor Survivors Association
Emory University
George Washington University
Consolidated PBY (Seaplane)
Location:: Korea, P’anmunjŏm-ni
Marshall Islands, 6.9518742, 170.9985095
Midway Islands
New Zealand, -40.900557, 174.885971
Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal, -9.59842095, 160.148511701845
United States, Florida, Jacksonville, Naval Air Station, 30.23583, -81.68056
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Atlanta Metropolitan Area, 33.8498, 84.4383
United States, Hawaii, Honolulu County, Ford Island, 21.36425, -157.96203
United States, Hawaii, Honolulu County, Fort Weaver, 21.3739885, -158.025913
United States, Hawaii, Pearl City, 21.400594, -157.970406393964
United States, South Carolina, Beaufort County, Beaufort, 32.43158, -80.66983
United States, South Carolina, Beaufort County, Hilton Head, 32.21632, -80.75261
United States, Virginia, Prince William County, Quantico, 38.52234, -77.29359
Medium:: video recordings (physical artifacts)
mini-dv
Type:: Moving Image
Format:: video/quicktime
Description:: In this interview, Carl Moore recalls his experience in the United States Marine Corps during World War II and Korea. He describes his education and entry into the Marine Corps. He details his training and early career. He was stationed with his family at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. He reads from his wife's diary details from the attack and the days following. He describes an incident of friendly fire as American planes tried to fly back to Pearl Harbor from the USS Enterprise following the attack. He describes witnessing the Battle of Savo Island and how he was preparing for the invasion of Japan when the war ended. He recalls his time in the Korean war and his frustration. He feels that the war has not ended; it was merely a truce. He describes his post-war education and career.
Thomas Carlisle Moore was in the United States Marine Corps during World War II and the Korean War.
Thomas Carl Moore and wife, Bryant Holsenbeck Moore Veterans History Project Atlanta History Center With Newell Tozzer July 23, 2003 See also interview with Myers Brown on November 19, 1999. [Tape 1, Side A] Interviewer: [Introduction to interview by Newell Tozzer.] Would you please tell me who you are? Moore: Thomas C. Moore. M-O-O-R-E. Interviewer: And when were you born? Moore: I was born on January the fifth, 1914, in a small country town, White Plains, Georgia. Not Plains, but White Plains, Georgia, which is in Greene County, about halfway to Augusta, from Atlanta to Augusta. Interviewer: And how did you [come to] to Atlanta? Moore: Well, I had a somewhat uneventful childhood. I went to school at White Plains, finished the tenth grade there and then had to go away to Greensboro, Georgia, twelve miles away to finish the eleventh grade, which was all that was required in those days. Eleven grades was enough to get you into college. And then I applied and got accepted at Georgia Tech in Atlanta as a co-op student, which means you have to work six months and go to school six months and it takes five years to get through that way. From that, from my ROTC work, when I graduated I was looking for a job. I had an offer with the Tennessee Valley Authority. I had an electrical engineering degree. I had an offer with the Tennessee Valley Authority for a job which paid a hundred and ten dollars a month, but I also, because, through my ROTC, Reserve Officers Training Course, at Georgia Tech, I was offered a commission in the Marine Corps, which paid a hundred and twenty dollars a month plus some allowances. I didn't know anything about the Marine Corps, but I took the highest paying job and entered the Marine Corps in July of 1936, when I graduated, and stayed in for twenty-eight years. Interviewer: Where was the first place you were sent? Moore: Well, I first was sent to the Marine Corps officers' basic school, which was located in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Navy Yard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and went through nine months training there to learn how to become a Marine, although I already had my Army training that I'd gotten at Georgia Tech. From there—shall I go on? Yes, I went to, I had sea duty on an old battleship. I was a junior Marine officer on a battleship for a year and a half. And we made midshipmen— Interviewer: When was this? You graduated in '36? Moore: Yes. And this was— Interviewer: Graduated from Tech in '36. Moore: And '37. Interviewer: And this was 1937? Moore: I went nine months to Marine Corps basic school and then my first duty after learning how to become a Marine at basic school was sea duty for a year and a half aboard a battleship. We made cruises up and down the east coast, taking reserve naval units, giving them some training. We went to Europe twice with midshipmen. Loaded midshipmen aboard. Went to Europe twice. Interviewer: And this was in what, '37, '38? Moore: Thirty-seven. That's right. Thirty-seven, '38. Interviewer: We were not in the war. Moore: No, we were not. And then as war clouds were beginning to form in the Pacific, the Marine Corps developed what they called a defense battalion, which was equipped to go out and defend small islands in the Pacific. And I went to school at Quantico, Virginia, for nine months of learning about how to use these anti-aircraft and seacoast artillery weapons. And then I was sent out to . . . oh, and then I got married. Came back to Atlanta, got married and went to . . . Interviewer: When was that? Moore: That was in . . . I was married on October the fifteenth. Mrs. Moore: [inaudible, corrects date] Moore: The year you were born. No, that was November third. I'm sorry. [laughter] I'll be in the doghouse for that. [laughter] All right. Interviewer: What year? Moore: Of 1939. Interviewer: And please tell us your wife's name. Moore: My wife is named Bryant, B-R-Y-A-N-T, Bryant Holsenbeck, H-O-L-S-E-N-B-E-C-K, which was her maiden name. And at that time, I was assigned to Parris Island, South Carolina, where we, in the battalion that I was being trained in we needed to train the men in firing and using the weapons that we were going to set up in the Pacific. And we were at Hilton Head Island. Hilton Head had no causeway to it at that time. You had to go by boat. There was nothing there but a small oyster-growing factory, oyster beds and a few people were harvesting the oysters. There was a, we lived, we were assigned to Parris Island. We went over by boat and we had a tent camp on Hilton Head. There was also, the owner of Hilton Head was some rich man from New York who had a hunting lodge there and that's the only thing that was at Hilton Head at that time. We went over, I went over once a week and stayed during the whole week and then we'd come back to Parris Island. And I had brought my wife with me then to an adjacent town, Beaufort, South Carolina, where I would get to see her for a little over twenty-four hours a week for several months while we trained at Hilton Head. Interviewer: And this was '39? Moore: This was, yes, 1939. Right. Late '39 and early '40. And then when our unit was ready, we all, guns, men, officers, cats, dogs and family loaded aboard a ship, went down, stopped at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and went through the Panama Canal, back on up to San Diego, picked up some more troops and then we went on out to Hawaii, landed at Pearl Harbor, at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard. Interviewer: What was the date of that? Moore: That was in late '40. [wife's voice, inaudible] May of '40? Yeah. Well, the summer of 1940 anyway. And we stayed there in barracks at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, getting some more equipment, getting trained a little bit more and then my unit was assigned to go to Midway Island, which is about a thousand miles west of Hawaii. And we went out there to set up gun installations. I left in January of 1941 to go there, leaving a pregnant wife in the most brutal home. Interviewer: Was she at Pearl Harbor? Moore: On the edge of Pearl Harbor at Pearl City. Interviewer: Pearl City. Moore: Yes. And so I went out and a month or so later on March the first, found out that I produced, that we had produced [laughter] a little girl. And after a week or so they let me come back for a few days to see my child and see my wife. And then I had to go back to Midway. And stayed out there until about September of 1941, September, October. At that time, we had been living on this remote island with nothing on it much but gooney birds. Interviewer: What were they? Moore: They were a type of albatross, which were very funny birds that do a funny mating dance and would land and topple over when they landed. So anyway, we were sent back to Pearl Harbor to—another unit had come out and relieved us and taken over the installation, the guns that we had installed on Midway. And then, we went back to be re-equipped and retrained and get a few replacements and to be prepared to go out to another Pacific Island. And so there we were in the barracks at Pearl Harbor. The unit was there. Interviewer: How many are in a unit? Moore: We were about twelve hundred in this battalion that I was assigned to. By that time I was a captain in the Marine Corps. So those of the officers and those who had families were allowed to go home to their families on weekends or at night when they were not needed, when they were not on duty. And so, I had gone home that weekend on the night of December the sixth. So I was at home on the edge of the harbor with my wife and baby daughter on the morning of December the seventh. Interviewer: When the Japanese struck. Moore: [To wife]: And may I read just a little bit from your diary? This is from my wife's diary that she kept and she writes, “Carl . . .” My name is Thomas C., but the C stands for Carl, so. Said [reading]: “Carl and I were just waking up when some terrific sound and thud jolted the house. We lay there a few minutes, but after a couple of these jolts Carl was out of bed and out on the back steps. When we got there, we saw planes dive bombing over the harbor. Traces of smoke from shots, which were being fired from the Navy Yard, drifted off into the clouds. Then came a surge of ratta-tat-tat of machine guns. It all happened so suddenly that we couldn't believe that it was the real thing. After dashing back and forth, in and out of the house to see what was happening where, for a few minutes, Carl finally came to the decision that it was the real thing. Our neighbors were out watching what they thought was a sham battle. One, Delores, just couldn't believe it because someone had told her that the planes were painted to represent Japanese craft on purpose to make it more realistic. She and Sharon, her daughter, just sat in the window watching. All the time shells were bursting and bombs were exploding. For a few minutes at a time, there was a slight lull. A friend, Tinky Smith, on the other side of the peninsula, phoned and wanted to know about it all. Her husband was in the Navy Yard on duty. Carl dressed and went over to see how Tinky was, but he didn't go until there was a lull from the firing. Just after he left, the firing started up again all around us. It was all so close. The loud cracking, popping and thumping. We had no time to be frightened. It was too interesting to watch and listen to.” [tape stop] Interviewer: We took a break. We're going back to our interview with Mr. Carl Moore. He is reading from his wife's diary of the day of the Pearl Harbor attack. Moore: To continue from her diary, she says [reading]: “While Carl was at Tinky's, Delores and Esther, the neighbors, came over and they had just about talked me into believing it was a sham battle. Her husband's ship, Delores' husband's ship had gone out this weekend with Life photographers on board. Esther thought she had seen the planes coming from Wheeler Field from her kitchen window. Just as Carl came in, the radio announced that Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, was being subjected to a bombing attack by an enemy. When Carl came in, he said that shrapnel was cutting off the limbs of tree at Tinky's. He knew it was the real thing. He had seen the USS Utah roll all the way over. I hastily fixed coffee for Carl while he prepared to go to the yard. By that time, the noise and vibrations were coming fast and furious. I had to pick up Goober [which was our daughter's nickname] because I just knew she'd be scared to death with the windows rattling and the house shaking. During the worst of it, Carl, Goober and I stood under a doorway together. He was so sweet, just his kind, protecting arm helped. All the while, anti-aircraft shells were popping and machine guns roaring. The planes were flying so terribly low, we all went into the kitchen to see the planes as they headed over the house and the trees toward the harbor. As we stood at the window and watched, we saw splashes in the water caused by fragments apparently. Just as Carl and I left the kitchen, we noticed that a machine gun bullet had passed through the kitchen and the door and we hadn't even heard it. Later we found that the bullet had also gone through our daughter's room, passing about three inches above her crib, just where she had been standing before we picked her up.” Interviewer: How old was your daughter? Moore: Nine months. My daughter was nine months old. [Reading]: “Well, we cleared out of the kitchen promptly. We sat in the living room and just looked at each other. Carl drank his coffee and when things cleared slightly, he left the house.” Interviewer: That's just remarkable. And I think how wonderful that you kept that diary. Moore: Now, are we still on? All right then. I left the house and got into our 1938 Studebaker Coupe and drove around the harbor to go to my duty station. And in driving around the harbor, it was, I drove past the ships that were by that time burning and I was sort of trying to keep my eye on the road and look at the burning ships and watch to see if a plane was coming in to strafe the car. I was concerned about that. But anyway, I got around the harbor safely and went into the Navy Yard, was waved right on in and got there just about the time the first phase of the attack ended. This was, the attack began at 7:50 in the morning and it, the first attack, the first waves were finished in about forty-five minutes, by nine o'clock. I'd gotten into the yard and our unit was trying to get all the guns that we could to set up all the anti-aircraft guns and find some ammunition. Things were in somewhat of a turmoil. Shortly after I got in, the second wave, the second attack wave came in. Everyone was firing most everything they could get their hands on. It was, some people were even firing .45 caliber pistols up at airplanes that were ten thousand feet in the air, which was, of course, absurd. We were probably in more, those of us on the edge of the harbor were probably in more danger from our falling shrapnel than we were from the Japanese planes because they were concentrating on the ships. The next day, around our house we found the fragments of, these are some of our shrapnel from some of our own anti-aircraft weapons that were fired. These shrapnel, these fragments had fallen around our house and maybe some on the house, which my wife picked up the next day. The second wave finished its attack in about forty-five minutes and so by eleven o'clock that morning the whole thing was all over, except that there was a lot panic around the harbor and the burning ships were sinking and still exploding with some of their ammunition as the fire got to them. I knew that I had witnessed a horrible thing. My battalion spent the rest of the day going out hauling in ammunition from the naval ammunition depo, hauling it in to replace the ammunition on the ships that they needed in case of a further attack and we helped haul some of the injured people who were badly burned out of the water and took them over to the naval hospital, which was a part of Pearl Harbor. So we spent the day doing that. About sundown, two of our patrol seaplanes, patrol planes—they were called PBYs—had gone out to search for the Japanese fleet. They came in and flew low over the entrance to the harbor, which is, where there was an Army fort, Fort Weaver. They flew low over that to land on the water. They had docks there that the seaplanes landed in, operated from. Someone at Fort Weaver panicked and gave the alarm that gliders, Japanese glider planes were landing at Fort Weaver. And that created quite a panic. Interviewer: That wasn't true. Moore: No. No. That was just a rumor, of course. But we were ordered to load aboard trucks with our weapons and to go out, to go and repel the Japanese which were presumed to be landing at Fort Weaver. We got loaded aboard the trucks. We were getting ready to leave to drive around to go to Fort Weaver when someone smelled a bad odor and they gave the alarm, “gas”. Well, we all panicked because we all left our gasmasks in the barracks. So everyone got off the trucks and went to the barracks and got their gasmasks and got them on and maybe a half an hour or forty-five minutes later, we got the trucks reloaded with everyone wearing a gasmask and by that time, someone realized that the odor that we had smelled came from the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard incinerator. And fortunately about that time, we were told that they had finally figured out that the Japanese were not landing and that we didn't have to go to Fort Weaver to repel the invaders. And it was probably very fortunate that we didn't have to make that trip because an Army unit over at the Scoffield Barracks had been ordered to send a unit also and the Marines and the Army might have met halfway and we might have had a battle between ourselves had the order not been cancelled. We continued until about eleven o'clock that night. Six planes from the carrier Enterprise, fortunately our two carriers that we had out there were not in Pearl Harbor at the time, so they were at sea and they were not attacked. But they had sent out search planes and six of the planes from the Enterprise came back to land on the Enterprise and the captain of the Enterprise wouldn't let them land because he didn't want to light up his ship for fear of Japanese submarines attacking the ship. So they were ordered to go into Pearl Harbor to land in the island, Ford Island, where the ships tied up. There was a landing strip there and some naval aircraft operated from there. They were directed to go there to land, so the ship wouldn't have to be lit up. Well, landing was cleared. They sent in the authorities, the ship authorities, the Navy Yard authority authorized them to make the landing at Ford Island. They came in and someone on a ship, one of the ships, didn't get the word and they opened fire at these six planes. They were, as soon as one person opened fire, all the ships and everything around opened fire on our six planes coming in. One of them made it safely, not safely but he was shot up a little bit but was able to land at this airstrip on Ford Island. The other five were shot down in flames and several of the pilots were killed. I think one of them parachuted out and made it safely. And one of the planes landed in flames near, on Pearl City, near where my wife was staying that evening. Interviewer: She and your daughter. Moore: And my daughter. And they were, you were staying with, she was staying with two of the neighbor ladies there. They were staying together in a house. Didn't know what was going to happen. They were then able to call, you called the Pearl City police to come down and help you and they did. They came down and helped these three families to evacuate them up into the hills in case the Japanese would be landing the next day and they wanted to get them away from Pearl Harbor. So they went up into the hills and had some experiences there, which Bryant has written up into her diary. Two days later, after checking with the Red Cross and various other places, I was allowed to leave my duty station in the Navy Yard and to go to where I found out my wife and daughter were up in the hills and I went up there and met them there and then we were able . . . Interviewer: How did they get out of Pearl Harbor and safely home to this country? Moore: To this country? Interviewer: How and when did your wife and child, baby, get . . . Moore: Well, we went back to our home in Pearl City and I had to go back and report for duty. But she was able to stay in the house then. Things had subsided enough to let them stay there in the house. And I was able to get off occasionally and be with them. Interviewer: At what point were they evacuated? Moore: All civilians who were not native-born Hawaiians or who were who didn't have jobs there were evacuated as soon as they could, but they didn't have enough ships or planes flying back to the coast to take everybody out immediately. So she stayed until March the fifteen, was it? About in March. And then she was, she and the baby were flown back to the West Coast. And shall we cut for a minute? [Tape stops.] Interviewer: Coming right back after another break and I want to ask Mr. Moore how he was awarded the Legion of Merit. I see on his biographical information that he was awarded the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star. Moore: Well, I, when my wife was evacuated, I stayed in Hawaii until July, in late July, in which my unit was ordered to go with the First Marine Division into Guadalcanal, which was in the Solomon Islands. And the Japanese had started building an airstrip there. And if they had completed it, it would have been a place from which they could have cut off our supplies going, our trade between Australia and New Zealand and the United States. And so, we were ordered to take the island and develop an airstrip for the United States. And we did. We went in and without much opposition. But the Japanese reacted violently, and we stayed there on Guadalcanal for six months, my unit did, along with a lot of other troops and finally some Army troops. The Japanese were, we developed a perimeter defense around the airfield which we completed and the Japanese would land on, either away from, on either side of the perimeter and come in and attack us. And it was touch and go for six months. I didn't think that we were gonna make it several times because we were under a lot of fire, bombing every day and frequent shelling from Japanese ships at night. But we managed to make it through that all right and, well, finally, after a lot of casualties and a lot of fighting there. And the USS Atlanta was sunk there one night off shore. I saw the naval battle from the shore. At a distance, I didn't know what was going on. I just saw the flashes and the explosions out in the ocean. My unit did fire. We fired at a lot of Japanese aircraft that were coming in to bomb us. So we fired back at some of the Japanese ships to try to keep them from getting in too close so the shelling would be less effective. And from that, from the work that I did there, I got the Bronze Star for the combat duty. And later on, well, after the end of six months, my unit was sent to New Zealand. I'd had an injured knee. Not from, I'd fallen going into a dugout there that we had and I had to have a slight operation on my knee. I came back to the United States, stayed for nine months training other troops to go out and do the same kind of work. I then went back to the Pacific to the Marshall Islands. Interviewer: What was the date of that, when you went back? Moore: That was in '44. Let's see. Back in '42, '43. Yes, in '44 I went back to the Pacific to the Marshall Islands, then to Guam and was at Guam with my unit getting ready to load ships for the landing in Japan, on the southern island of Japan when the war ended. So that was my World War Two experience. And you asked about the Legion of Merit. Back in, later on in 1952, I was stationed in Korea. And at that time I was a colonel and a regimental commander and so for my, and I, I stayed about nine months in Korea and for that work that I did there, I got the Legion of Merit. I was awarded the Legion of Merit. Interviewer: How do you feel about the Korean Conflict? We celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of it now. Moore: It was a very frustrating thing. We had gone back and forth and finally we sort of stabilized along the thirty-eighth parallel and started negotiations with the North Koreans and the Chinese, who were also helping the North Koreans, up at Pyongyang. And finally, reached a truce, and so the war is still going on. We never, the war has never ended. We just have a truce that's lasted for fifty odd years. It was not an all-out war. The United States did not fully support it. And we were prevented from dropping the atomic bomb again because Russia had gotten the capability by that time. It was frustrating to try to hold that one line which was held for over a year while negotiations went on and we had casualties on both sides during that time. It wasn't quite as frustrating, I guess, as Vietnam later became, but it was . . . Interviewer: Similar. Moore: It was the beginning of our doing a police action that we were not permitted to win. We were not given enough troops. We were not allowed to go beyond the Yalu River. Interviewer: You received the Legion of Merit for your service in Korea. Moore: In Korea. Yes. Interviewer: And when did you return home? Moore: I returned home at the end of 1952. And then I stayed in the Marine Corps. I did some, we had a couple of years in Japan during the occupation in 1955 to '57. My family went with me to Japan. Interviewer: At this time you had another child? Moore: Yes. Yes, we'd had another child down at the Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, where I was stationed in the late forties. And then we, then I did some other work in the Pacific. I went out with a training unit. Took a training group to Taiwan where we worked with Chiang Kai-shek's forces that he had, after he had evacuated and taken over and was operating from Taiwan. And we went out to train his forces and to make a landing back in China where he thought all the Chinese would flock to his colors once he came back and got back into China. Of course, it never happened. But we went out and trained some of his Marines and worked there. How we doing time wise? Interviewer: Got a little longer. We've got about ten minutes. Moore: Got any more questions? Interviewer: Oh, anything you want to tell us. It's all about you. Whatever fascinates you most. Moore: Well, I was in the greatest danger during Guadalcanal, during the battle there. And one incident, we were being shelled by a Japanese battleship. We were waiting to be shelled. They hadn't started. I was in a coconut log dugout, which was my, we didn't really know what was happening out at sea or how many Japanese might have landed on either side of us. But I was in a coconut log dugout and I'd taken my helmet off and was listening to a radio and leaning my head back on a coconut log and all of a sudden, something grabbed my head and I thought it was a, I thought the Japanese had landed and they'd gotten into our dugout and this is it. I jumped back and it was a big coconut crab [laughter] that had gotten tangled up into my hair, and those coconut crabs had great big claws. They could event move a coconut around. And so that was . . . Interviewer: That was a funny experience. Moore: That was a funny experience. Interviewer: You must have had a lot of frightening experiences. Moore: Oh, I did have. Yes. Interviewer: What was some of the most frightening? Moore: Well, I guess before we had built this dugout for our command post we had dug a little trench. We couldn't dig very deeply because water seeped up in it. We'd hit water. And I was lying in there with our first sergeant. He and I were lying there while the Japanese were shelling and one of the fragments—we were alongside each other—one of the fragments hit his leg and knocked the calf of his leg off. Injured him very badly and so I had to get help and put on a tourniquet and things like that. I had some other bad experiences in Korea when some of our patrols would come back bringing bodies that had, the legs had been blown off by a mine that they might have stepped on. Things like that that were not very pleasant. Interviewer: I know that you were here at the History Center on the sixth of June. Do you keep up with people? Moore: Yes, to some degree. We have a retired officers association in Atlanta that meets once a month and we see people from all the services there. We have a Pearl Harbor Survivors Association that meets once a month and we've attended that occasionally. [Wife mentions monument in Marietta]. Yeah, we have a monument out at Marietta from the Pear Harbor Survivors Association in the Marietta National Cemetery there. Interviewer: So you do have some buddies that you . . . Moore: Yes, we do. We have friends that we've made at these meetings. Interviewer: When did you retire? Moore: I retired in 1964 after twenty-eight years in the Marine Corps. Interviewer: And a very remarkable career. Remarkable. Moore: Well, thank you. Interviewer: And you came to Atlanta when? Moore: In 1964 I knew that I was going to retire. I'd been going to, taking some courses at George Washington University to qualify to teach school. And so I got my master's degree in education from George Washington University. I had to stay one year and so in '65, after I finished my graduate work, I came back to Atlanta and began teaching in the Atlanta school system. I was teaching mathematics at Northside High School. And from '65 until early '70, teaching became less and less rewarding in those days and I became a high school dropout [laughter] and went to, got a job at Emory University doing administrative work. And I worked out there for eleven years. Interviewer: You did some double duty. Moore: Yes. Well, yeah . . . Interviewer: Teaching . . . Moore: What? Interviewer: Emory after teaching. Moore: Oh, yes. Emory after teaching. Right. Yes. Interviewer: And now you're content to enjoy Atlanta, I hope. Moore: Well, yes. Yes. We enjoy Atlanta. Interviewer: And we're so grateful to you for this interview. Moore: Well, thank you.
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